Can you please stop posting in the flamewar style? You've done it multiple times in this thread, it's not what we want here (and destroys what we do want), and you can make your substantive points without it.
From a legal point of view, they are correct: non-profits do not have shares, so they do not have shareholders, and it's the board that wields ultimate authority.
Of course in real life non-profits are funded by donors, who thus have a great deal of practical power over what happens, and you can also do things like sue the non-profit for deviating from its mission.
If they are willing to let things end (because they see their mission as not being fulfillable etc.) and don't care much otherwise then that statement isn't far off. I really don't know how ideological this particular situation is, though.
Are you going to claim something is specifically going to happen to them or are you just going to post about "what's really going on man"?
Satya can assassinate them if he wants, but they're not in legal trouble. (Although, considering how much Helen Toner's resume reads like a CIA agent, he probably shouldn't try it.)
I think they could survive as a useless AI safety lab too. After all, there's already been one for decades called MIRI and it has enough donors to stay open.
